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Quotes About Dominion

And concerning all these, is not Possession the whole of the law?
~ Herman Melville
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
~ Homer
no es un bien la soberanía de muchos; uno solo sea príncipe, uno solo rey: aquél a quien el hijo del artero Crono ha dado cetro y leyes para que reine sobre nosotros.
~ Homer
Self-control is true power.
~ Marco Pierre White
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
~ Pope John Paul II
I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
~ Janet Morris
I have my throne, I have my sword, I have an empire. But I have . . . no-one.
~ Steven Erikson
The ways of men have no power over us.
~ Storm Constantine
No one knows this land as well as I. Its secrets are my secrets. I can bend its elements to my will. You don't have to go to the serpent alone.
~ Storm Constantine
Mine now," he said aloud, then laughed softly. "All mine.
~ Storm Constantine
I feel like investing in really solid stuff that I can control.
~ Redfoo
To establish the kingdom of love is to live in dominion
~ Sunday Adelaja
Mankind's original destiny was to extend God's glorious dominion of love throughout the earth
~ Sunday Adelaja
L'autoritat fa que les persones siguin cruels.
~ Miriam Toews
We so willingly slip the collar of command upon any pretence whatever, and are so ready to usurp upon dominion, every one does so naturally aspire to liberty and power, that no utility derived from the wit or valour of those he employs ought to be so dear to a superior as a downright and sincere obedience. TO obey more upon the account of understanding than of subjection, is to corrupt the office of command.
~ Montaigne, Michel de
The power that created me would not have given me such a capacity for feeling pleasure if I weren't meant to use it, Evleen whispered to the man who sat rapt beneath her touch. Your religion wants dominion over our bodies because sex is the one ecstasy they can't control, and they are threatened by any rapture other than that they offer.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
I will lay my hand upon the flow of time, if need be, that you shall have however much of it you seek.
~ Naomi Novik
Therefore, sow the seeds of I AM .... I OUGHT.... I CAN.... I WILL REALIZE that because you ARE you OUGHT, that because you OUGHT, you CAN, that because you CAN, you DO. The manifestation of this Truth, even in a small degree, gives you the indisputable understanding that DOMINION IS YOUR CHARTER RIGHT You are an Heir of First Cause, endowed with all the power He has. God has given you everything. ALL is yours, and you know that all you have to do is to reach out your mental hand and take it.
~ Napoleon Hill
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
~ Sallust
Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man's right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, 'that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,' that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.
~ Thomas Hobbes
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.
~ Thomas Mann
I adore storms. I love the raw power of the spectacle: Hydraulics! Voltage! Percussion! Mother Nature has dominion and everyone awaits her whim.
~ Kathy Reichs
So we see that God created man as a dominion creature who is commissioned with the "Cultural Mandate" (Gen 1:26) to subdue the earth to the glory of God. The question arises then: Will man subdue the earth to God's glory as God intended? That is, will God's creational purpose for man be realized — in history? Postmillennialism declares that it will.
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
So we see that God created man as a dominion-oriented creature who is commissioned with the "Cultural Mandate" (Gen 1:26) to subdue the earth to the glory of God.[21] The question arises then: Will man subdue the earth to God's glory as God intended? That is, will God's creational purpose for man be realized — in history?
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.